Oscars Were Feeling Minnesota
February 25th, 2008
By Scott Doane
Even though I did not watch any of the Oscars, nor did I see most of the best picture nominees, I feel like part of me won an Academy Award: Best state in the mother fucking union.
The Oscars winners were announced Sunday night and like usual ran way over time. The pomp and circumstance this year was hosted by Jon Stewart, who began the night, according to Reuters, by ripping on how depressing the plots of the best picture nominees were and how the writer’s strike almost caused the ceremony to be canceled, which would have made life much more tolerable this Sunday.
But the real story isn’t how Jon Stewart isn’t that funny without a writing staff, but that Minnesota kicked ass this year. Former City Pages blogger, Diablo Cody, won Best Original Screenplay for the movie “Juno”, which shows that Micheal Cera plays the same awkward character in every movie he’s in. Cody wrote the screenplay for “Juno”, supposedly, in a coffee shop at the Crystal Target store in downtown. After excepting the award, she ripped off her leopard print dress and spun around on the mic stand until the music ended and DJ Jon Stewart announced the next presenters.
The other huge Minnesota win comes from the best brother duo since Raul and Fidel Castro (more on that later), the Coen brothers. I’ve loved nearly every movie these St. Louis Park natives make, even the one where George Clooney lip-syncs. And the Academy loved them too giving the brothers Coen four Oscars this year for the grisly crime thriller, “No Country for Old Men.” The Coens won three themselves for Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Director, and the grand daddy of them all, Best Picture. Javier Bardem, who plays that scary guy with a huge gun, won the Best Supporting Actor award.
So even though Minnesota is still fucking freezing in the winter, our sports teams suck ass, the tuition at our state university is expected to go over $10,000 soon, our governor could leave us to be McCain’s running mate (that’s actually a good thing), US senators try to score a little sucky sucky in our airport bathrooms, and did I mention it’s fucking cold here, at least we can be proud that an ex-stripper and two brothers who live in NYC more than Minneapolis, brought some hardware home for the North Star State.
Comments & Discussion
congrats to the most over-hyped screenwriter in recent history. who’d that gorgeous ex-striper have to rub knees with to get that trophy, huh? maybe her next movie will actually be worth hyping.